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Re:Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control ... by ndnxhs on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:05PM (#18071592)
The database leaks are usually very easy to obtain. You can just run grep over them and find anyone's account
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Re:Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control ... by tokyodude on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:41PM (#18072019)
my mom doesn't know how to grep someone's account. My mom does know how to type her sister's email address into a form.
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Re:Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control ... by RadioactiveMan on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:39PM (#18071999)
There's seven billion people in the world for which running grep is not easy. This makes it easy.
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Re:Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control ... by ndnxhs on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:00PM (#18072104)
And anyone could do the same. It would probably take me the afternoon to create a service that searches an email address in some text files. Overall having people be aware of data leaks is more important than attempting to hide already public data.
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